The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

In my research focused on early farmers of Europe, I have often wondered about a curious pattern through time: Farmers lived in large dense villages, then dispersed for centuries, then later formed ...

Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

Throughout history, numerous ancient technologies have left researchers and historians pondering the true capabilities of early civilizations. Were they more advanced than we give them credit for? By ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...